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Globalization’s Tipping Point and Tibet

Globalization’s Tipping Point and Tibet

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Apr 09, 2008
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The Tibet-inspired flameout of the Olympic torch on the streets of Paris could well be the symbolic turning point of the era of globalization, at least for its major recent beneficiary – China. Take it to an extreme and it recalls the comment of the then-British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey on the eve of World War I, the end of another era of globaliza…

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